The University of Oregon’s Department of Human Physiology will host a May 10 talk, “Human Shoulder Muscle Structure and Function in Health and Disease,” as part of the department’s ongoing lecture series.

Samuel Ward, an assistant professor in radiology and orthopaedic surgery at the University of California-San Diego, will present from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Room 211 of the Lillis Business Complex. The lecture is free and open to the public.

A University of Oregon program that pairs faculty and students with local cities for sustainability projects has been something of a best-kept secret. But those days might be numbered.

So says Mariah Hudson-Dula, sustainability coordinator at San Diego State University, the latest institution among a half-dozen nationwide to adopt the UO’s Sustainable City Year Program. When Hudson-Dula and Geoff Chase, dean of Undergraduate Studies, learned about the program at a national conference last year, they knew it was right for their university.

Jim Keju feels that having a “golden” personality means being friendly, kind, and patient with others. That's what he aims for each day when he comes to work for University Housing.

Keju, a custodial worker in Bean Hall, makes sure the halls are tidy, bathrooms clean and custodial closets filled. He also emanates a passionate, kind persona, allowing him to develop relationships with a variety of students in the halls – relationships that he says are vital to his success and enjoyment of the job.

An exhibit on display in the Architecture and Allied Arts Library,  "Color: A Magic Power," shows the ways colors interact with each other – such as bricks surrounded by white concrete appearing brighter than bricks surrounded by a darker concrete.

The plates on display through spring term 2013 are from the classic work "Interaction of Color," by Josef Albers, first published in 1963 by Yale University Press. The original volume is housed in the Secure Collection of the Architecture & Allied Arts Library.

The Oregon School for the Deaf's BEAT (Bold Expressive Arts Theater) program will present a series of songs, stories and poems – entirely in American Sign Language (ASL) – in the UO's Jacqua Center theater on Thursday, April 11.

Barbara Bateman, a professor emerita at the University of Oregon and legal special education consultant, was honored this week with the 2013 Council for Exceptional Children's J. E. Wallace Wallin Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bateman received the award April 3 at the organization's 2013 convention and expo in San Antonio.

The J. E. Wallace Wallin Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual who has made continued and sustained contributions to the education of children and youth with exceptionalities.

What do literature and architecture have in common?

April Anson’s “tiny house.”

Anson, a graduate teaching fellow in English, has built – and lives in – a house about the size of a shed. It’s 114 square feet, sitting comfortably on a 16-foot trailer in west Eugene.

“I had been long stressed by the amount of stuff that I own,” Anson said. “I’ve become acquainted with what I need and don’t need.”

There are 252 metal steps leading to the top of the Capitol dome in Madison, Wis.

Some visitors might find the trip harrowing, or at least exhausting. But University of Oregon law school alum Fred Risser – the longest-serving state legislator in the United States – handles them without breaking a sweat.

At 85 years old, Risser was featured recently by National Public Radio as part of its focus on people working past 65.

An April 10 town hall meeting at the UO on Eugene's new social host ordinance will is aimed at building awareness among students and others who may be affected by the law, according to event organizers.

The meeting – sponsored by the University of Oregon's Office of the Dean of Students and the Associated Students of the University of Oregon – will be from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Room 100, Willamette Hall.

Scholars in international relations have long believed that there is one true scientific method, and adherence to it guarantees the validity of the research.

But Patrick Thaddeus Jackson says the belief simply isn’t true.

Jackson, a professor of International Relations at the American University in Washington, D.C., will deconstruct long-held beliefs about scientific inquiry during a free public talk from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, in the EMU Walnut Room.